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Julia Canny
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'''Julia Canny''', 1894-1987, Irish Sister of the Holy Souls, survivor of Hiroshima.
==Early Life==
Julia Canny was born in Clonbur, Co Galway, in 1894. She emigrated to the USA in 1921, joining the [[Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls]] in New York in 1933. She embarked for Japan in 1939 from San Francisco. After [[Pearl Harbour]], she was interned on the presumption of being an American, but released after six months when it was demonstrated by the Swiss ambassador that she was an Irish citizen.
==Hiroshima==
In August 1945,
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Julia was sitting in her garden when she saw a huge blinding flash of light in the sky and was thrown off her chair. She picked herself up and ran inside her home for cover along with her fellow religious sisters – all Sisters of the Holy Souls in Hiroshima. Suddenly, there was a deafening explosion and the convent building began to shake. Terrified, she ran outside as the convent collapsed at their heels.The convent wall collapsed before her very eyes. Where the wall had stood lay the remains of her neighbourhood.</blockquote>
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She had just witnessed the world's first atomic bomb, its epicenter a mere 1.7 kilometres away. She was probably the only Irish citizen to do so. (but see [[Aidan MacCarthy]])
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In that instant, 50,000 people had been burnt to death – secondary school children, hospital patients and staff, factory workers, shoppers, kindergarten children and teachers, entire families. A further 50,000 people died from raging fires in the hours that followed.
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Julia and her friends were spared from the radiation by taking shelter in their convent, and saved from serious shrapnel injury when they ran out from the convent as it went up in flames behind them.
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Canny and others helped survivors as best they could, but many were beyond any sort of aid.
==Later life==
Canny never returned to Ireland, and was bed-ridden for the last years of her life. She died in 1987.
==See also==
* [[Hibakusha]]
==External links==
* https://ift.tt/1Dw6g9r
* https://ift.tt/2OL8jhA
* https://ift.tt/2AH1cUr
[[Category:20th-century Irish people]]
[[Category:Irish nuns]]
[[Category:People from County Galway]]
[[Category:World War II prisoners of war held by Japan]]
==Early Life==
Julia Canny was born in Clonbur, Co Galway, in 1894. She emigrated to the USA in 1921, joining the [[Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls]] in New York in 1933. She embarked for Japan in 1939 from San Francisco. After [[Pearl Harbour]], she was interned on the presumption of being an American, but released after six months when it was demonstrated by the Swiss ambassador that she was an Irish citizen.
==Hiroshima==
In August 1945,
<blockquote>
Julia was sitting in her garden when she saw a huge blinding flash of light in the sky and was thrown off her chair. She picked herself up and ran inside her home for cover along with her fellow religious sisters – all Sisters of the Holy Souls in Hiroshima. Suddenly, there was a deafening explosion and the convent building began to shake. Terrified, she ran outside as the convent collapsed at their heels.The convent wall collapsed before her very eyes. Where the wall had stood lay the remains of her neighbourhood.</blockquote>
<blockquote>
She had just witnessed the world's first atomic bomb, its epicenter a mere 1.7 kilometres away. She was probably the only Irish citizen to do so. (but see [[Aidan MacCarthy]])
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
In that instant, 50,000 people had been burnt to death – secondary school children, hospital patients and staff, factory workers, shoppers, kindergarten children and teachers, entire families. A further 50,000 people died from raging fires in the hours that followed.
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
Julia and her friends were spared from the radiation by taking shelter in their convent, and saved from serious shrapnel injury when they ran out from the convent as it went up in flames behind them.
</blockquote>
Canny and others helped survivors as best they could, but many were beyond any sort of aid.
==Later life==
Canny never returned to Ireland, and was bed-ridden for the last years of her life. She died in 1987.
==See also==
* [[Hibakusha]]
==External links==
* https://ift.tt/1Dw6g9r
* https://ift.tt/2OL8jhA
* https://ift.tt/2AH1cUr
[[Category:20th-century Irish people]]
[[Category:Irish nuns]]
[[Category:People from County Galway]]
[[Category:World War II prisoners of war held by Japan]]
August 05, 2018 at 02:57AM
